Should Hitler have won WW2?

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[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Why plunge the entire continent into a war over Poland? And why not declare war on the USSR then? They invaded Poland as well.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in 1941 and brought the Soviets to the Allied side. He kept burning so many bridges that it was more important to take him out first and deal with the Communists later (which we did. The Cold War came right after the Nazis were defeated. Winston Churchill also developed his own plan to invade the USSR but everyone was just tired at that point).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable

Edit: Not to mention, Stalin himself was actually the least aggressive Commie. He personally ordered the death of Trotsky because he was baiting the Soviet Union to attack Europe. So it was to our benefit to not piss him off whereas Hitler didn't care and would attack anyone.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The USSR invaded Poland before the Germans invaded Russia.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not in 1939.

German invasion began on the 1st of September. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Border

Soviets on the 17th. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland

Both countries were monsters and eventually crumbled so I'm not sure what you expect. The USSR folded in 1991 so we can't declare war on them anymore. :(